World Community Grid is pleased to launch the Genome Comparison project by Fiocruz in Brazil. This project will perform a pairwise comparison between all predicted proteins in complete genomes available in the public DNA databases. When scientists study a new protein, they look for similar, better-understood proteins as a guide to their function. This in combination with other information will help annotate these genomes leading to faster and better understanding of cellular function and infectious agent relationships. For more detailed information and frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the project, please press the Research button in the upper navigation bar or click
here.
In addition to providing information about this project, we have created a forum for discussions about the Genome Comparison project. To participate in this forum, please press the Forums button in the upper navigation bar or click
here. Only forum authors with the title "Fiocruz Genome Comparison Scientist" are authorized to comment as representatives of the research organization: Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz).
The Genome Comparison project is one of four projects running on World Community Grid. In addition there is FightAIDS@Home, which has been running on since November of 2005, Help Defeat Cancer, which has been running since July of 2006, and Human Proteome Folding Phase 2, which was recently restarted on World Community Grid. For more detailed information and FAQs about each of these projects, please press the Research button in the upper navigation bar or click
here. We thank all of our members for all of their valuable contributions to the projects to date and hope you will continue to help us process those as well as this latest project.
Because there are four research projects running on World Community Grid, your grid agent could receive work units from any of the projects. You may elect to focus your computer's time on only particular projects, if you have a preference. To do so, press the My Grid button in the upper navigation bar and select My Projects or click
here.
If you are already a member of World Community Grid, there's nothing that you have to do to prepare for the Genome Comparison project. The next time your grid agent communicates with the servers, it will send you a work unit from one of the projects at random for which your machine meets the minimum requirements and according to your project participation elections. To know which project you are running, please double-click on World Community Grid icon (or BOINC Manager icon if you are running BOINC) in the system tray, and you will see the title of the project in the display.
If you have any questions, World Community Grid provides you with four methods of obtaining assistance: (1) Review the FAQs found in the Help section of the website, (2) Review the forums to see if anyone has asked/answered the question that you have, (3) Ask the question in an appropriate World Community Grid forum found
here and a Community Advisor or a more experienced member will provide an answer, and (4) Send an email to the support desk from the Contact Us link found at the bottom of every page of the website.
We thank you for running the Fiocruz Genomic Comparison project.